Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 155
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.044% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.11% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £663 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £731 - £638
90th Percentile £758 - £668
London median daily rate £528 £800 £550
% change year-on-year -34.06% +45.45% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Amazon ECS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 769 930 1,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.66% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 627 952
10th Percentile £332 £393 £325
25th Percentile £425 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £753 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in Central London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 6 £675 - 3
Amazon ECS
London

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) Faiss
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) NetApp